Ken Ueno - TPICC, Honorary Jury

Ken Ueno is a member of Toolbox’s Advisory Committee and was the Honorary Jury Chair of TPICC 2019. Ken Ueno is a composer, vocalist and sound artist who is currently the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Distinguished Professor in Music at the University of California, Berkeley.

''Our most meaningful listening experiences are exercises in empathic exchange. And my history of little secret listening epiphanies are little secrets I've worked to unlock, little gifts of trust from my favorite artists.'' - Ken Ueno

 

Here are some tunes he has been listening to recently:
1. See You Again - Tyler, the Creator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

2. 今宵多珍重 - My Little Airport:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

3. Schubert Bb Sonata - Mitsuko Uchida:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7cc2FD06FM

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Here's a poem by Percy Shelley that has given him comfort during trying times:
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life; Joy, Empire, and Victory!